Shingle-marking machine.



O. PATOHETT & R. P. MORRISON. SHINGLE MARKING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED APR. 8, 1912. I j gpfig glzg, Patented July 1,1913;

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- Y "5 ATTORNEYS ilNiiED {PATENT @EFKQE CHARLES PATCHET'I'AND ROBERT P. MORRISON, OF VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

SHINGLE-MARKlNG MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1 1913.

. Application filed April 8, 1912. Serial No. 689,351.

To all whom it may concern v I Be it known that we, CHARLES PATcHE'rr and ROBERT P. LIORRISON, citizens of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver,

in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful Shingle-Marking Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for marking the faces of shingles with lines parallel to their butts, the object of which is to facilitate the work of laying the shingles by dispensing with the necessity for stretching a gaging line or using a straight edge.

The object of the invention has been to provide a simple marking machine through which the shingles may be rapidly passed as they come from the shingle saw and be fore delivery to the packers, during which passage both faces f the shingles will be,

marked with one or more lines in accordance with the weathering they arerequired to have.

The invention is particularly described in the following specification, reference. being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:-

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the machine: Fig. 2, an end view, and Figs. 3 and 4:, enlarged details showing the application of the marking points to the roller.

In these drawings 2 and 3 represent ordinary rollers of wood or metal, the axles of which are free to rotate in hearings in side frames 4: secured to the foundation sills 5 and between these sills 5 and supported on cross members 6 at the approximate level of the tiop of the lower roller 2 are receiving and deivery plates 7 and 8 on which the shingles 10 are passed through between the rollers, a fence strip 9 being provided along one side of the receiving plate 7 against which the butts ofv the shingles are to be shingle inserted between the rollers and will rotate therewith.

tween them, the butts of the shingles beingpressed against the gage fence 9.

If considered desirable, a pigment may be delivered upon the spike points 12; that on the upper roller 3 from a tank 13 supported above it on a bar 14 in a manner to permit of lateral adjustment to variation of the weathering mark, and the points of the lower roller 2 may rotate their pigment by contact with a beltroller 15 rotatable in a bath 16 underneath the machine.

The points 12 are preferably chisel pointed in the plane of rotation, asshown in Figs. 3 and 4;; They may be directly inserted in the roller in any convenient manner but' as they are practically the only part which is subjected to any wear, they avill preferably be applied in ring segments somewhat as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 so that when worn they may readily'be replaced and that the distance of the weathering line from the butts of the shingles may be readily varied claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is: a

In a shingle marking machine, a table over which the shingles are adapted to be passed, said table having an opening, a lower marking roller mounted beneath said table in cooperation with said opening, said lower marking roller having a peripheral groove, a spiked band mounted insaid groove, the spikes of which band are adapted to indent the underside ofthe shingles, a corresponding -roll mounted above said lower roll, said I In testimony whereof We have signed our 'ixn'responding-roll also including a spikeqlii names to this specification in the presence indenting bani], and means for applying a l of two subscribing Witnesses. niai'king fluid to the spikes of the i'espeo- CHARLES PATCHETT. tive indenting; bands whereby the marking ROBERT P. MORRISON.

't he' shingle, siibstantially as shown and for fluid will be carried to the indentations in Witnesses: W

ROWLAND BRITTAIN. MAY WHYTE the purposes described. 

